Anchor Institutions

SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
www.aashe.org
AASHE is a membership-based association of colleges and universities working to advance sustainability in higher education in the US and Canada. On the group’s website are many resources to assist campus sustainability efforts, including a sustainability policy bank, a campus sustainability professionals page, interest groups, publications, classroom resources, and useful links for virtually every aspect of campus operation.

Americans for the Arts
www.americansforthearts.org
Americans for the Arts is an organization for advancing the arts in the United States. With 45 years of service and more than 5,000 organizational and individual members and stakeholders across the country, the group aims to foster an environment in which the arts can thrive and contribute to the creation of more livable communities.

Association for Community Health Improvement
www.communityhlth.org
The Association for Community Health Improvement is a national association that promotes community health, healthy communities and community benefit. The group convenes and supports leaders from the health care, public health, community and philanthropic sectors to help achieve shared community health goals, and work with hundreds of members to strengthen community health through education, peer networking and the dissemination of practical tools.

American Hospital Association
www.aha.org
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities. Close to 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers of care and 37,000 individual members come together to form the AHA.

American Libraries Council-Libraries for the Future
www.lff.org
Americans for Libraries Council (ALC) is a national nonprofit that advocates for libraries at the national level and develops and promotes programs aimed at realizing the potential of libraries in the 21st century. The Council aims to encourage the public to view libraries as national assets, essential for a healthy economy and vital democracy.

APPA
www.appa.org
APPA is the association serving educational facilities professionals (formerly the Association of Physical Plant Administrators). APPA’s membership consists of more than 1,500 learning institutions encompassing over 4,700 individuals throughout the United States, Canada, and internationally.

Bank of America Foundation: Anchor Institutions program
www.bankofamerica.com/foundation/
index.cfm?template=fd_anchorinstitutions
Bank of America Foundation’s anchor institution program seeks to support community stakeholders to further economic and community development. Programs sponsored include cultural institutions (such as theaters, performing arts centers, and zoos), hospitals, and universities.

Catholic Campaign for Human Development
www.nccbuscc.org/cchd
Founded in 1969, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development is the domestic anti-poverty, social justice program of the U.S. Catholic bishops. The grants, economic development, and education for justice programs of the Campaign, implemented in collaboration with local dioceses, are supported from an annual collection in U.S. Catholic parishes.

Center for Health Design
www.healthdesign.org
The Center for Health Design aims to transform health care settings into healing environments that are better and safer places for patients to heal and health care professionals to work. The current hospital construction boom—projected to be more than $30 billion annually in 2010—provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to rethink how hospitals are designed, and especially to consider how improved hospital design can help reduce staff stress and fatigue, increase staff's effectiveness in the delivery of patient care, improve patient safety, reduce patient and family stress, and improve overall health care quality.

CEOs for Cities
www.ceosforcities.org
CEOs for Cities is a group of more than 80 urban leaders, representing 26 of the nation’s cities that aims to foster urban development, including the role played by anchor institutions. Members include mayors, university presidents, foundation officials, corporate executives, and heads of economic and civic development organizations.

Culture Shapes Community
www.cultureshapescommunity.org
A joint program of the Ford Foundation and the nonprofit organization, Partners for Livable Communities, Culture Shapes Community is an initiative that supports art and cultural groups in neighborhoods undergoing rapid demographic change. The program aims to assist art and cultural institutions to promote neighborhood-based social and economic development, give voice to the voiceless, and provide opportunities for upward economic mobility.

Health Care Without Harm
www.noharm.org
Health Care Without Harm is a global coalition of 443 organizations in 52 countries. Coalition members include hospitals and health care systems, medical professionals, community groups, health-affected constituencies, labor unions, environmental and environmental health organizations and religious groups. The organization aims to transform the health care industry worldwide, without compromising patient safety or care, so that it is ecologically sustainable and no longer a source of harm to public health and the environment.

Making Connections—Annie E. Casey Foundation
www.aecf.org/MajorInitiatives/MakingConnections.aspx
Initiated in 1999, Making Connections is a 10-year program of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which involves a network of sites in 22 cities. In this program, the Casey Foundation, working in coordination with local partners, aims to bring together residents, community leaders, businesses, government officials, community groups, and anchor institutions such as schools and faith communities to enhance the effectiveness of local neighborhood revitalization efforts.

Marga, Inc.
www.margainc.com
Marga is a consulting firm that addresses cross-sector partnerships, philanthropy, strategy, and various aspects of management. Much of Marga's work focuses on universities and their role as anchored institutions and engines of economic development within the communities in which they are located.

National Association of Educational Procurement
www.naepnet.org
Since the 1920’s, NAEP has been the non-profit professional association primarily dedicated to serving higher education purchasing officers in the U.S. and Canada. The group aims to promote effective and ethical procurement principles and techniques within higher education, through continuing education, conferences on such topics as sustainability and minority contracting, networking, public information and advocacy.

National Rural Funders Collaborative
www.nrfc.org
The National Rural Funders Collaborative is a philanthropic initiative designed to leverage $100 million over ten years to support rural communities and families facing persistent poverty. Recognizing that private philanthropy cannot meet this goal alone, the groups aims to use its funds to support developing that leverages anchor institutions and other public and private resources at local, regional and national levels.

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New Door Venture
www.ggci.org
Founded in 1981 to provide social services to at-risk youth, New Door Ventures (formerly Golden Gate Community, Inc.) began its social enterprise operations in 1990 as a means to provide job training and jobs to the at-risk population it serves. The nonprofit currently operates a bike shop (Pedal Revolution) and a print shop (Ashbury Images). During the period between 1998 and 2005, New Doors employed a total of more than 200 at-risk youth and young adults. Its social enterprises raise roughly $4 million or roughly 80 percent of its $5 million budget.

Partners for Livable Communities
www.livable.com
Partners for Livable Communities is a non-profit group founded in 1977 working to improve the livability of communities by promoting quality of life, economic development, and social equity. Many of its programs, such as its “Creative Cities” initiative focuses on the role cultural institutions can play in anchoring community wealth building and economic development.

Partners for Sacred Places
www.sacredplaces.org
Partners for Sacred Places is a national, non-sectarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to the sound stewardship and active community use of America's older religious properties. Founded in 1989 by religious, historic preservation and philanthropic leaders, Partners provides assistance to the people who care for sacred places and promotes a greater understanding of how these places sustain communities.

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Practice Greenhealth
http://cms.h2e-online.org
Practice Greenhealth is a nonprofit organization that was formed in 2008 through the merger of three groups: Hospitals for a Healthy Environment (H2E), the Green Guide for Health Care, and the Healthcare Clean Energy Exchange. The group works to educate health care professionals about pollution prevention opportunities and provides a wealth of practical tools and resources to facilitate movement in the health care industry toward environmental sustainability.

Second Nature
www.secondnature.org
Since 1993, Second Nature has worked with over 4,000 faculty and administrators at more than 500 colleges and universities to help make the principles of sustainability the foundation of all learning, practice, and collaboration with local communities.

Seedco
www.seedco.org
Founded in 1987, Seedco (the Structured Employment Economic Development Corporation), a national community development intermediary, creates opportunities for low-wage workers and their families by engaging with community partners and anchor institutions to develop, operate and learn from model programs that help people join the workforce and achieve economic self-sufficiency, assist small businesses, and promote asset building for residents and businesses in economically distressed communities.

U3 Ventures
www.u3ventures.com
U3 Ventures is a consulting firm that works with urban university clients, with the aim of channeling their real estate development to support both institutional and community objectives. U3 Ventures has worked in a number of cities to date, including Denver, Philadelphia, and Calgary.